On occasion, I come across these interviews with these old porn stars like Christy Canyon, or Ron Jeremy and they swoon about the good old days of porn. I don’t think 30 years from now you will see porn stars from 2014 doing that. Most of them will realize that they’re lucky to escape that lifestyle with their lives, or will be so freakishly weird you wouldn’t be able engage them in normal conversation.
I only hesitate to out and out condemn porn, because I can at least remember back to those days of Christy Canyon and Ron Jeremy when porn didn’t seem so abusive, violent, and creepy.
Now as then it’s the women that are the stars, and some of them are obviously attractive, but the difference is now most of the male actors, producers and directors come off as lechers and perverts.
Even more disturbing is that vast majority of modern porn comes off as a choreographed rape or a molestation. Complete turn off for me, but I guess I’m not who they are marketing it to, and I cringe to think who their target market is.
When you start factoring in the human-sex trafficking factor into the mix it definitely tips the scale for me to the condemn side but again I hesitate to do that. I just worry about the sliding scale of what we categorize as freedom of expression in this country. Where do we draw the line as what is freedom to express yourself and what is just wrong.